0:01 Is this a drone shot or a chopper shot? Can’t tell but most likely a chopper shot. In winter? What’s funny is that there’s no shipping traffic visible, and this is daytime, so they must have ‘Shopped out all the vessels but left in the wake pattern waves you can still see. So this all looks a little freaky to me. Also, as in Disney’s Big Hero Six (about which more anon), there’s no Golden Gate Bridge center divider here, so that dates this shot a bit. Perhaps it’s from the CBS vault or something.

0:12That ain’t Frisco. Oh, the only person / name I recognize in this whole deal is Jeremy Piven, but if you asked me about him I wouldn’t be able to tell you anything else about him. Like, oh yeah, he starred in that thing – my memory would need to be jostled. (Sad!) And yes, this show is on the CBS and I know that that’s Channel 5 and I know that I could turn on my TV and watch (like there’d be a 99% chance my rabbit ears would be able to tune in, barring serious rain or hail) but I’d have to set an alarm to remind me to do so every week and then I’d feel like somebody should have to pay me to watch this AND the commercials, which would especially feel like torture to me. Sry. Also, it would make sense that this platinum(?) blonde would be the trope-ish Dead White Girl’s mother, but she looks like JP’s mom, in this scene anyway. Also sry, just being frank here. Anyway, ask me in a month and I might think his name is Jerome Priven or something else. I’m not hooked up right. In any event, that ain’t Frisco.

0:27 Yes, it’s PA? I mean, R.R. tracks, baseball fields – I’ll buy that. Possibly a drone shot, but what if it crashed and landed on somebody? I think the suits down in LA LA LAND would have the money and feel more comfortable with a real chopper. Also, ALLSOURCER is a horrible name, but it’s one word and it was prolly easy to clear.

1:09 Oh, “Mia Tanner was murdered in her Russian Hill apartment?” It’s like the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is writing this script, huh? At this point, I’m thinking that no, this show isn’t going to be FILMED IN FRISCO at all, which is prolly why I don’t recall any production effort here. Also, there are very few murders in Russian Hill of course, just saying.

1:28 Of course all the computing devices are from Apple and all the logos are strategically covered by hands, over and over.

1:31 Massive lens flare! I guess we’re done with Palo Alto.

1:35 A container ship parked parallel to our Bay Bridge near its Alpha Tower? No no no no no. This is a place for tourists from L.A., public art, and “street furniture” – it’s not really a working location anymore. (But from this bridge you can see some military-type cargo-type vessels berthed, in case of war.)

1:38Not Frisco.

1:42 She looks like she has Italian heritage. That’s all I’ve got. Anyway, she’ll be the #3 recurring character.

2:32 Now this could be a drone shot. Possibly reversed video. But where’s Salesforce Tower? I’ll tell you, I think Big Hero Six had an SFT. I’ll have to check.

2:37Not Frisco. An unpainted curb without cars parked on it? Maybe in Los Angeles, but not here, not these days.

2:45 The idea that the SFPD wouldn’t know what the highly distinct and quite popular Toyota Prius is is a bit laughable. Also, you can’t easily determine the specific year like this. However, there was a hit and run on Mission a while back where the SFPD pulled a screengrab and you could see that it was some kind of Lexus ES, due to the tail lights and other cues that Toyota added to allow people to see a difference between it and a Camry. Anyway, this is the kind of thing what already gets crowdsourced in a way. Like on Reddit SF, that kind of thing. Anyway, so it’s a Prius – not the C model and not the V model, just regular, but it’s been the #1 seller in the bay area for years and years, and it’s, by far, the #1 model on our roads up here, so lots of luck, Jerome / Jerry whatever your name is. Also, people who break into Russian Hill apartments to kill you don’t drive the Prius, sry, UNLESS they are UBER Lyft drivers?! Ooh, I think I’m on my way to solving this one!

3:24 Gotta say chopper shot here. Also, there are no cars on Conzelman, and no people up at the GGB overlook? Looks all funny, doesn’t look real even though it’s 99% real.

3:40Not Frisco.

Oh, it was that guy? I didn’t see it coming, but then again, I didn’t have the sound on so I don’t know what’s going on.

In conclusion, this show is so not FILMED IN SAN FRANCISCO. (It’s a lot cheaper for it, you know, because we are a high-cost place to do biz.) And with all the Photoshop hijinx, it’s won’t ever be a time capsule of Frisco 2017, the way the Streets of San Francisco is.

Man, pay me $50 a throw and I’ll watch this San Francisco show. But otherwise…